02/07/2026
Huge congratulations, Massimo!
Massimo's MA project Current's Wanderers has won the Förderpreis Design 2026. This is the third year in a row that the prize goes our MA Interaction Design programme – an extraordinary streak, and we are immensely proud of his achievement.
Current's Wanderers invites us into a world most of us never notice. Using water as a physical and conceptual bridge, the installation lets visitors observe, listen to, touch and move alongside real-time plankton – drawn from a microscopic portion of Lake Greifensee – through the very currents that carry them.
The project stands out for developing genuinely novel more-than-human design methods, showing both the plankton and the scientists who study them in a new light. It builds empathy towards living beings most of us overlook, and translates into design the care scientists hold for these tiny communities – a reminder that science offers more than data and facts alone.
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Current’s Wanderers: A Real-Time Bridge to Plankton Life
Massimo Bordogna
Mentors: Prof. Dr. Karmen Franinović , Anthea Oestreicher , Luke Franzke
Collaboration Partners: Aquascope – Eawag, Marta Reyes & Stefanie Eyring
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